Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business.
Be careful what you say to him: he’s a bit of a gossip.
To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a manner that spreads the information.
This Place then is no other than the Chandler’s Shop; the known Seat of all the News; or, as it is vulgarly called, Gossiping, in every Parish in England.
A surname.
From Middle English godsybbe, godsib (“a close friend or relation, a confidant; a godparent”), from Old English godsibb (“godparent, sponsor”), equivalent to god + sib. Doublet of godsib. For sense ev...
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To talk idly.
[…] on seats beneath the trees, the old men group of an evening to drink their ale and gossip over village politics;
To stand godfather to; to provide godparents for.
[…] a world Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms [i.e. Christian names], That blinking Cupid gossips.